WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO APRIL 1953
Find out what all happened March to April 1953

Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia. (16. April 1953)

Warner Bros. premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax. (10. April 1953)

In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people. (30. April 1953)

Operation Moolah is initiated by U.S. General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots in the Korean War. (27. April 1953)

CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA. (13. April 1953)

An earthquake hit western Turkey, killing 250 people. (18. March 1953)

Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later. (1. March 1953)

Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (6. March 1953)

Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA. (25. April 1953)

Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. (24. April 1953)

A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11. (3. March 1953)

The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV. (29. April 1953)

Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya's British rulers. (8. April 1953)